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A new research for the secular polar motion in this century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Zhao Ming  and
Dong Danan
Zhao Ming
Affiliation:
Shanghai Observatory, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, China
Dong Danan
Affiliation:
Shanghai Observatory, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, China

Abstract

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A new research for the secular drift of the Earth's pole was made based on nine long sequences of latitude observations and led to the following conclusions.

  1. 1. During this century, the Earth's pole has been moving with a mean rate of about 0″.0016/yr along the meridian about 70° (W). This drift rate is much less than the 0″.0035/yr derived from the ILS sequence.

  2. 2. Relative to the North American continent, the Ukiah station located on the west coast of the U.S. shows a local drift of about 6 cm/yr northward, which coincides well with that determined by new techniques.

  3. 3. Referring to the Europe-Asia plate, the whole North American continent shows a drift northward with a rate of about 8 cm/yr. The Mediterranian shows a similar drift of about 6 cm/yr. Perhaps these drifts are the consequences of plate motion and/or deflection of local vertical. It is useful for ascertaining the sources of the drifts to intercompare longer sequences observed with different techniques, including classical and new ones.

  4. 4. Three of five ILS stations, Ukiah, Gaithersburg, and Carloforte, show significant local drifts. Therefore, the Conventional International Origin (CIO), which is defined by the 1903.0 mean latitudes of five ILS stations, is far from fixed on the Earth's surface. It is necessary to re-define an origin of the pole of the Conventional Terrestrial System (CTS).

  5. 5. The quasi-30-year libration showed by the ILS data is not the real pattern of the Earth's polar motion, but results from both the irregular polar motion over some period and the local motion of Ukiah.

Type
VI. Causes of Variations in Earth Rotation Parameters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 128: Earth's Rotation and Reference Frames for Geodesy and Geodynamics , 1988 , pp. 385 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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